In November 2024, the California State Transportation Agency (CalSTA) awarded the latest round of funding to various transit and rail projects, including $63 million towards development of the Coast Rail Corridor. This corridor will link the existing, successful rail systems in Northern and Southern California by conventional...
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were briefed on Wednesday on the dangerous chemical leak from a railcar near Cincinnati, Ohio, that has prompted evacuations of school buildings and homes....
There’s a new train pulling into the station in San Bernardino, a southern California city about 60 miles from Los Angeles. From the outside, it looks like any other commuter train, with three passenger carriages, blocky windows and a colourful blue exterior....
I just moved and I live literally window to a freight train line, unfortunately it scares the crap out of my cats and so I’m trying to find out what the schedule is so that I can close the windows for them, and maybe put a little raspberry pi display screen saying something like “next train arriving in…” Next to my...
Using an old ‘gravity slate train’ and an engine, he uses the tracks in the timetabled trains downtime. What a time to be alive. And gravity trains too: youtu.be/-A7sZVgct3E
Although US coal consumption has fallen dramatically since 2005, the country still consumes millions of tons a year, and exports tons more—much of it transported by train. Now, new research shows that these trains can affect the health of people living near where they pass....